A terrorist attack left 49 people dead on Friday at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. The attack, which took place around the time of congregational prayer, was streamed live on Facebook and then posted to YouTube. A 74-page manifesto released by a man claiming responsibility makes clear that the …
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Lady Gaga and Madonna have had a notoriously rocky relationship for a decade now. Now that Gaga has an Oscar for “Shallow” under her belt, the tides may have changed: the pair posed for a loving photograph together at Madonna’s Oscars after-party. Related: 20 Best, Worst and Most WTF Oscars …
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The AMI-Jeff Bezos scandal is set up to dominate headlines for a while. Who knows where it will lead? In the third world, an oligarch-president proxy war playing out in public like this usually presages a coup. If this were Thailand or Uruguay, bookies would already have odds on a …
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It only takes the first two seconds of the first song on their first record for Led Zeppelin to make crystal clear exactly what they intend to do — and exactly what they intend to do to you. In the opening to “Good Times Bad Times,” the band drops a …
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Midway through the new season of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, the eponymous heroine, Fifties Jewish housewife-turned-comedian Miriam “Midge” Maisel (Rachel Brosnahan) tells her manager Susie (Alex Borstein) that she’ll be spending the summer with her family at a resort in the Catskills. Susie is aghast about losing two months’ worth …
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A Blue Wave has broken Republican control of Congress. Democrats have secured morethan two dozen seats toreclaim the House of Representatives for the first time since 2010. Armed with subpoena power, Democrats are now in position to put a critical check on President Trump, holding him accountable to both the …
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Mac Miller and Ariana Grande‘s relationship fell unusually under the tabloid radar for the majority of their two-year run. It was their breakup in May that finally captured public attention, especially since it was followed eight days later by Miller crashing his car while intoxicated and, just weeks after that, …
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The family of Aretha Franklin denounced Rev. Jasper Williams Jr.’s eulogy at the late singer’s funeral as “offensive and distasteful.” Williams Jr. delivered a nearly 50-minute eulogy at Franklin’s service last Friday, causing an uproar on social media with comments about the Black Lives Matter movement, black-on-black crime and the …
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Late last month, news broke that pop star Demi Lovato was rushed to a Los Angeles hospital after experiencing an apparent opioid-related overdose. Paramedics who had arrived at her Hollywood Hills home reportedly gave the 25-year-old singer Narcan, one of the brand names for naloxone, a medication used to reverse …
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For the first time since 2012, the surviving classic members of the Beach Boys reconvened last night for a Q&A session for SiriusXM. They sat side-by-side in Studio A at the landmark Capitol Records building in Hollywood, the same room where they made some of their earliest songs five decades …
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